Thursday, August 16, 2007

Day 179

I've mostly been trying to "spruce" the place up as much as I'm able to..over the past couple of days (well, it's been a very slow work in progress for a little while now). Yesterday, I bought the majority of the curtains for the downstairs. I haven't found the exact ones I'd like for the living room yet (they'll actually probably end up waiting till the furniture moves in..because that's smarter)..but I figure the dining room is a start.

In the living room all I mostly did was change the flowers in the vase on top of the tv from random uglies to pretty pretty orchids..and I switched out the rug in there, too. The other rug moved up to the new office/reading room (calix sits on the floor surrounded by all of his books and flips through them..so..mommy and daddy's office..calix's reading room haha aww). That angel picture will be removed shortly..as soon as I find a new very cute wall clock. I have one in mind already.

I also finally made the move and bought new bedding. Though..after I put it all on the bed.. I'm not so sure I like it as much as I'd hoped. I was mostly just getting super sick of the old red and black stuff and was ready to put just about anything different on there. What do you think?

I know, I should have ironed the bedskirt..but I get too excited sometimes.

I also put new runners in the front hallway and upstairs hallway..but they're nothing special.

Also, how cute is it to look at my newly married (sort of haha) attempts at trying to spruce this ol place up? Are you remembering when you were young and poor and lacked large collections of stuff? It's fun.. just frustrating because it's taking sooo long to do stuff!

11 comments:

I like the orchids....I love all the photos of your kids sitting around more though. I'm so bad at putting up pics of my kids. I have a single 8x10 of them from last Christmas in our family room above the loveseat, and the girls' school pics from last year (soon to be replaced with this years) above the piano. I pretty much suck when it comes to trying to decorate my house though. Your house looks very cute and cozy! I like your table too...it reminds me of the old school/retro white table that Josiah and I had when we first got married.

Sarah, I'm pretty bad atthe picture thing too because, like you, mine are *all* digital. I seem to wait until my pictures folder is all kinds of full then spend the next couple of days on walmart.com's photo center sorting through and ordering pictures. I just did this again and have 300 to buy haha. I'll be hitting the dollar tree up shortly for more frames..because that's how I roll.

and Hannah..shoot..the floors *are* clean. I don't even wanna go into how much time is spent sweeping and mopping those dang floors every friggin day. The floors are cute..though, they suck to have when it comes time for little babies wanting to crawl.

We also have hardwood floors. Remember the line in Funny Farm when she says, "And when they say 'hardwood floors,' they really mean HARD wood floors"? Yeah. Try to do any yoga positions that require your knees to be on the floor.

About Me

I'm 30, married to a man of the US Army sorts. We have 2 boys Calix (8) and Maddox (6) and a girl, Kaydence (2) and while I don't claim to be the greatest mother in the world, I'm certainly doing the best that I can on the little sleep I get.